Three Quarters Done
I may not be keeping up with NaNoWriMo, but this mosaic is on track to be finished by Christmas. It’s intended as a gift, and not in my usual style. I am far happier when working on something like the Autumn piece http://wp.me/pMKim-Ng that I hope has safely reached Maria in Barcelona. For me, that’s my art, whereas this is craft and I am less absorbed in it, more detached.
So maybe that is why I was susceptible to the food conversation earlier than usual tonight.
There’s a always a point around eight o’clock when someone speaks into the silence and asks, “So what are you having for dinner tonight?” Most of us are planning omelettes; pasta; left-overs from the fridge. We discuss sauces and salads, our tummies growling louder by the minute.
But Nina is following quite a strict diet. It’s got a special name which I forget every week. Madge asked her about it just an hour into the class. From then on the conversation turned around restricted and non-restricted foods and then fanned out into favourite meals, likes and dislikes, and if someone hadn’t started talking about a serious case of food poisoning, I might have had to pack up my stuff and head home straight away.
But my dinner’s ready now, so, bon appétit tout le monde.
Isobel (and Cat)'s Blog 
I think this one is lovely!
I’ve just had curry, cooked by Techie while I had to be a at parents evening. 🙂
I work on mosaics out in the garage, far away from the food supply. When I get hungry I’m sometimes too lazy to go inside to eat! I’m afraid of getting shards in my soup!
Quite! we aren’t allowed food or drink in the studio for that very reason, but it’s an evening workshop, so our minds tend to turn to food at some point .
It’s looking fab, Isobel. I like the colour combination and the suggestion of flowing and rotating.
I quite like this project too Isobel….it’s “happy” with the swirls and color combo.
Pam
I think it’s very pretty Isobel, it is nice to be able to click and see it enlarged! Food is a huge conversation around our house. What can I say, we love to eat! A glass of Missouri sweet wine is good too 🙂
Enough of this self-indulgent chatter.
What did that bloody cat have?
hrrmph.
Love the mosaic. You have a lot more patience than I do.
Thanks for the nice words about the mosaic. I think it’ll look quite effective, and it reminds me of my first mosaic which was very Bridget Riley influenced, but it’s not saying anything.
I enjoy the ones where I am expressing something about myself, my responses to the world, which have a narrative. This is something anyone could make. In that way, it’s impersonal, though I appreciate some people prefer it to my real mosaic voice. 🙂
Does that make sense?
I think the mosaic is rather lovely.
Our class on a Wednesday is punctuated by people bringing out things to eat as they can’t wait till the official breaktime. I don’t know what we would do if we weren’t allowed to eat. Keel over probably 😀
The mosiac is very beautiful 🙂